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138679Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Company n.d. 96p. wraps slightly browned. Little Blue Book 376. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
197625943New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1976. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels a bit of wear along top edge including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine. B&W photographs INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del / My special 'Dear Hearts' / whose friendship I / treasure. / Blessings and love / Meta Wilde / March 1 1980." The author's "full story of her romance with William Faulkner which began when she was a script girl for Howard Hawks and Faulkner came to Hollywood to work on the scenario for THE ROAD TO GLORY and continued over the next thirty years whenever time and chance gave the lovers an opportunity." Wilde went on to become one of Hollywood's legendary script supervisors working well into the 1980s sometimes under the name Meta Rebner with an impressive string of credits including TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THE GRADUATE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT SHAMPOO and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The inscribees of this copy were director Delbert Mann and his wife; Ms. Wilde had worked for Mann on the 1960 film THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. Signed by Author . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
167735hardcover. Illus. 8vo brds. d.w. N.Y. 1976. Very good with a partially faded d.w.<br/><br/> unknown books
197614235ENew York: Simon & Schuster 1976. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author Meta Wilde to fellow writer Wayne Warga. Inscribed: “For Wayne Warga whose encouragement and interest were important to us in the writing of this book. Warm regards Meta Wilde. November 1976. and Orin Borsten.†The story of a script girl who meets the married Faulkner when working on the scenario for Howard Hawk’s The Road to Glory and builds a relationship with him that continues for over thirty years. Illustrated. About fine copy with a trace of rubbing to the bottom corners in a near fine dust jacket with some slight fading to the spine. From the library of journalist and novelist Wayne Warga. The youngest editor at Life Magazine at age 25 Warga reported on John F. Kennedy’s race for the Presidency and went on to cover the Civil Rights movement for the magazine. For many years Warga was one of the leading writers at the Los Angeles Times where he did in depth articles and features on writers and people in the arts. Later Warga became a mystery novelist creating three well-received bibliomysteries: Hardcover Fatal Impressions and Singapore Transfer featuring Los Angeles rare book dealer Jeffrey Dean. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
19302221855<p>Octavo. Illustrated with 16 full page b/w illustrations by Ben Kutcher. 10 page introduction by H. L. Mencken. Pictorial endpapers also by Kutcher. Original gilt stamped pictorial cloth with variant designs on front and back covers top edge stained red. Dust jacket with designs that replicates stamping on front and rear cover price clipped; small chips; short tears. Very good 180 pages. Scarce in dust jacket.</p><p>Scarce in dust jacket.</p><p>Printed by The Quinn and Boden Company.</p><p>Adler page 24 noting 1918 1925 printings with various publishers.</p> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1891WRCLIT69505London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine 1891. Small quarto. Gilt green cloth backed cream cloth over boards elaborately decorated in gilt and red. Plates illustrations and decorated endsheets. Binding a bit darkened with some pale discolorations at edge 1895 ownership signature on preliminary blank corners a trifle worn the plates by Shannon somewhat faded as usual but still legible a few small nicks and a short tear to the edges of the front free endsheet but a good sound copy a few leaves unopened. First edition. Design illustrations and decorations by C. Ricketts and C. Shannon with plates by the latter. One of one thousand copies printed. Mason/Millard gives an account of the circumstances which led to the faint state of the Shannon plates. Contains four short stories: "The Young King" which first appeared in THE LADY'S PICTORIAL Christmas Number 1888 "The Birthday of the Infanta" which first appeared in PARIS ILLUSTRÉ March 30 1889 "The Fisherman and His Soul" and "The Star- Child." Because of its physical construction a book very difficult to find in agreeable condition. MASON/MILLARD 347. James R. Osgood McIlvaine hardcover books
19262221753<p>ONE OF 105 SPECIAL COPIES INSCRIBED</p><p>First edition. 10 1/4" x 8". 16 illustrations and facsimiles. Original tan linen over yellow boards light soiling. Spine label. No dust jacket. Very good. 140 pages. Scarce.</p><p>Over 329 items plus A items. Includes many listings for items not mentioned in Stuart Mason's Bibliography.</p><p>Copy #32. Inscribed November 1928: "Mrs. Burns Habner with kind regards from the publishers."</p><p>Printed by R. & R. Clark Limited Edinburgh.</p> Dulau & Company Limited hardcover books
